Scooter: C/D

Basically, I would descibe Scooter as Euro-Trance music that has been defaced with:

a) beautifully inept ESL rapping (the line "Alright, everybody!
Tie your shoes!" from "Maria (I Like It Loud)" makes me grin like the Kool-Aid man every time I hear it.)

&

b) Chipmunk-voiced choruses that are usually cribbed from some other song (see "The Logical Song" mentioned by Wooden).

Scooter are HUGE, like stadium tour huge, in Europe - they even have a spoof / tribute band, called, naturally, Moped.

Steal ANY one of their songs online - they will make you chuckle if nothing else.

Yet, I can't get enough of it. For that reason alone, CLASSIC.

FOr example, the following lyrics from "Well Done, Peter"

ABFAHRT!!!
Yeaaaah!
LOUDER!!!
... Yess!
Abfahrt!!!
Abfahrt!

Genius.!

Always lived my life alone,
Been searching for the place called home.
I know that I've been cold as ice,
Ignored the dreams, too many lies.
Somewhere deep inside, Somewhere deep inside me,
I found ... the child I used to be
And I know that it's not too late
Never too late...

3 AM!
The painted cow !
Hiaaaaa!!
You ain't stoppin` us now !
Wonderful human beings
Yeah ! I am the Junglist souldier.

Come On! The rocket launcher stops ya.
It's not a bird, it's not a plane
It must be Dave who`s on the train
Wanna wanna get'cha, gonna gonna get'cha
Tell them that I told ya
YEAH!

Always lived my life alone,
Been searching for the place called home.
I know that I've been cold as ice,
Ignored the dreams, too many lies.
Somewhere deep inside,
Somewhere deep inside me,
I found ... the child I used to be
And I know that it's not too late
Never too late...

Allright
Are you ready ? It's not a game.
I chant so much, I turn you insane.
Wanna wanna get'cha, gonna gonna get'cha
Messing up the area
YEAH!

Come On !
I am the freshman
Messing up the jam !
Turning up the stereo
Join the caravan

Skippy, the rain won`t come !

Somewhere deep inside,
Somewhere deep inside me,
I found ... the child I used to be
And I know that it's not too late
Never too late...

"It's not a bird, it's not a plane
It must be Dave who`s on the train"

are just ludicrously thrilling when you hear them

What is ESSENTIAL is invisible to the EYE!

It's only with the HEART that you can see RIGHTLY!

YEAH!!!!!

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAWW!!

RESPECT TO THE MAN IN THE ICECREAM VAN!

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Oh man, these could be the greatest lyrics ever. Priceless.

HIYA KYLIE!!

Can someone suggest a particular album? I've heard a few tracks and they are awe-inspiringly awful/GREBT!

LOLs X 100 at the pitch-shifted choruses...

Fixed.

And they're still doing it, check out "Apache Rocks The Bottom" from last year (or possibly this one).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7394927.stm

German techno group Scooter have knocked Madonna off the number one spot in the UK album chart.

Jumping All Over the World, the group's first UK album since 2002, went straight in as a new entry.

It is a surprising chart topper as the group have released only two singles in the UK over the past five years and both failed to break the Top 40.

Ha!

A victory for common sense.

not as wtf as their, er, version of Marian (Version) on said album

I hope this doesn't mean happy hardcore is coming back. It was bad enough here in the early 90s!

Scooter's never really been happy hardcore, have they? (Despite having an album called Our Happy Hardcore.) More like arena rave or pop trance.

While not a million miles from Happy Hardcore, their stuff is a good 20 BPM too slow.

Is that why they were never very big here in the 90s whilst massive in mainland europe?

I think German trance and rave in general weren't as big in the UK as in mainland Europe in the 90s.

Or did people like Marusha, Westbam, Cosmic Baby, DJ Tom & Norman, RMB, DJ Dick, Hardsequencer, Gary D, Mo-Do, etc have many hits over there?

Although, most of this stuff too is 20BPM slower than happy hardcore, so maybe the general rule applies to them too?

Dunno, it depends. Y'all about five years behind us. Maybe some little kids liked it.

"version of Marian (Version) on said album"

SRSLY? hang on how many of the tracks ARE covers?

4. Enola Gay
5. Neverending Story
7. Cambodia
8. I`m Lonely
10. Marian (Version)

??

the others are heavily sampled, not covers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_All_Over_the_World

"Jumping All Over The World" samples the song "A Glass Of Champagne" by the pop group Sailor"

WHY DID I NOT GET THIS FOR MYSELF WHEN I HAD THE CHANCE THE OTHER DAY. gah. right. amazon then...

Tuomas, happy hardcore and gabba was massively popular in Scotland. Easily the biggest music for kids under 21 in the 90s. I believe not so in the rest of the uk. The scottish scene was apparently the equivalent of Holland(Rotterdam anyway).
Funny thing was, when ultrasonic or TTF got in the charts , all the ravers i knew decried them for selling out!

I knew loads of people who were into it, hence my hatred of it with it BEING RAMMED DOWN MY THROAT.
They all went to The Rezurrection at Ingliston(edinburgh) which was a massive influence on what the happy hardcore kids(esp male, girls usually preferred house supposedly) listened to. If someone dj'd there or had a record played the kids bought it. Impulse in Hamilton sold shitloads of dj mix tapes and the like, infact the 12"s prob kept their business going.
When The Rez went bankrupt I think the scene went underground and wasnt as popular as it was and oasis came along and most of my mates who liked that stuff jumped on the oasis bandwagon.

Now maybe the kids of the original happy hardcore fans are now going to listen to the music that their parents like and it makes a comeback! *Shudder*

It never went away that much now i think about it, wasnt it just relabelled something?

There was a fairly large HH scene in London in the mid-late nineties when I was coming to the end of my teens. I went to a couple of raves.

My mate Justin recently had a no 1 hit on the Happy hardcore chart with Truffle Shuffle

I assume Scooters success has nothing to do with Nu-Rave? I would've thought that would have an entirely different audience.

So, why has this happened?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/MutedPosthorn.png

http://www.logotypes101.com/files/855/de6f8dd4671846a36a10e9e9d6fdf74a/lrg_Scooter.gif

okay so I'm relistening to DubScooter and it's actually quite fun. I don't know what I was thinking when I said that "David Doesn't Eat" is hands-down the shittiest single that Scooter ever did. Why did I take this stuff so seriously

oh and there's a new album too, and it has the line "Michael Attacked by a Pigeon/Having Fun Is My Religion"

I like that HP Baxxter is now 53 years old, and still doing this.

Disc 2: Selected rave classics reworked by Scooter

This particular tidbit from Wikipedia is making me smile:

The "C.I.F.L." abbreviation stands for "Copyright is for losers". You can hear the phrase by listening to the introduction in reverse.

I'm finding it amusing seeking out the reactions from the Scooter faithful to their jumpstyle and dubstep albums, basically calling them trash sellouts, as though they haven't been that since day one. Their later stuff is soooo much fun.

I went to see Scooter live a few years ago and it was one of the greatest nights of my life. They came out to two ten-foot tall burning pillars and Baxter played a guitar (!) that shot fireworks (!!!). It was relentlessly shameless and brazenly tacky, right down to the Clubland babes who couldn't dance that were on stage the whole time. I mean, I saw Madonna a week later and even though I love Madonna with all my heart and soul, the sheer spectacle of Scooter in concert blew her out the water.

the support act was a local radio DJ who played the Kevin & Perry film soundtrack but sped up by about 20%, the whole night made me wish I was really into taking speed

I believe that. Whenever I'm a few beers deep all I wanna do is listen to Scooter. I've got a killer playlist that's like 90 tracks long at this point. It's kind of a dream to see them live but I don't feel like they'll ever come to the USA again.

like that HP Baxxter is now 53 years old, and still doing this.

Disc 2: Selected rave classics reworked by Scooter

Fear and anticipation at the same time...

I'm listening to it now. Sounds a lot like the first Scooter album, but the tunes are better (probably because they're 100% covers instead of like, 75%). Is Scooter finally starting to take stock of their age?

It's funny that Scooter have zero problems with completely butchering the works of Status Quo, Supertramp, Walking In Memphis etc but are super respectful when covering/remaking these old trance classics.

I think the word you were looking for is "improving"

Of course I mean butchering in the very best way.

how on earth I have missed out on this for all these years.
found a couple of cds in the cheap bins in the last year ( "jumping.." with extra cd of hits, and "under the radar ..") and damn.
when you are trying to figure out what to listen to upon getting home from the pub after a few drinks, just put on Scooter and nothing else matters.

scootah

respect to the man in the ice cream van

feeling for the neighbours right now.
wont be too much longer though.

does anyone actually listen to a Scooter album all the way through ?

only after putting on my raving shoes

haha, indeed.
my de facto groove is dark music, whereas Scooter are the total opposite.
there is very little else in my archive that actually makes me smile and at times laugh out loud.
makes for a nice, but totally bonkers, change.

the "Marian (Version)" cover alone makes things .. interesting.

as I mentioned upthread I do have a playlist of like 90+ Scooter tunes that I shuffle through a lot. their albums range from "mostly decent" to "really bad outside of a couple of tracks" but one week I forced myself to listen to every single one and they definitely have...I dunno...4 CDs worth of great material

they're also responsible for one of the all-time great RYM lists
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/MalcolmXWing/the-ultimate-guide-to-every-scooter-album/

She Wants Revenge wish they could do a cover of a SOM track as brilliantly as this.

xpost.

I AM THE CAPTAIN
MY NAME IS DAVE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eINgmy4dUOA

this has got to be their 10th "I'll rave till I'm dead" song, gotta admire the dedication

The English Wikipedia entry for HP Baxxter is beautifully vandalized.

its that time.
weather is crap.
news is full of crap.
i need something to make me smile.
and bloody hell, Scooter do that in excess.
i put on a couple of tracks half an hour ago thinking that would be enough.
more fool me, this stuff is audio crack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOk0kpTkRys

just in time for single of the year

They're livestreaming a gig right now on Youtube, in case anyone's missed it.

turned it on in time for "How Much Is The Fish?", thanks for the tip

Never seen them live before, H.P. Baxxter is in pretty good shape for a 53 year old.

I was hoping they would finish with Move Your Ass, and they did! :)

lmao just realized they got a new guy in the band

sad lols at the pumped in crowd noise :/

he has no idea how to talk to a crowd of zero

lmao just realized they got a new guy in the band

It was only today that I found out that two of three original members have left the group and only H.P. is still left. Apparently one of the two left already in 1998, I guess I haven't been paying much attention to Scooter for a while... :)

that's what all the different chapters are - every time HP says something like "it's Chapter Number FOUR!!" that means someone left the band.

amazing that even with a crowd of 0 they still do the pyrotechnics and fake guitar playing...love these guys

H.P. Baxxter is in pretty good shape for a 53 year old.

56 even!

Oh, Wikipedia and Discogs have conflicting information on his birth year.

holy shit, the cover art for their next album:

https://images.genius.com/f10910e33ce5d98414594828ea6bbb28.1000x1000x1.jpg

haha.
but of course.
love it.

I mean I have to buy that just to put it on the wall right

you can zoom in on it here, truly a work of art

https://e.snmc.io/i/fullres/w/af511e89e49cd14ef2c91baee6ea72f5/8946286

well fuck, the album is actually pretty good. hate to say it but it's maybe a good thing that Rick quit the group, doing something other than chipmunking old 70's AOR hits and stealing New Wave melodies has actually made them quite interesting again

Having given Scooter the benefit of the doubt after their (at best) ambiguous Lockdown song, it's disappointing that HP Baxxter has just described attempts to make the German language more gender-equitable as a 'Verunglimpfung der Sprache' ('a denigration of the language') and 'Idiotensprache' ('idiot language')

https://www.mopo.de/hamburg/scooter-frontmann-positioniert-sich--h-p--baxxter---gendern-finde-ich-zum-kotzen---38374118

The language debate concerns issues such as the masculine plural noun being used in German for plurals referring to both genders. A call for all Bürger — (male) citizens — to follow coronavirus rules is also meant to apply to Germany’s Bürgerinnen (= female citizens). The best-known solution, the 'Gendersternchen', involves placing an asterisk before the feminine word ending to explicitly include women and non-binary Germans - Bürger*innen.

By sneering at this, Baxxter is aligning himself with some pretty dodgy conservative language groups, and also making people reconsider whether they let him off too lightly on the anti-lockdown song.

And as one commentator put it, every Scooter song denigrates two languages at the same time.

Dude’s near 60, can’t keep up with the kids forever.

it’s no more important to be nice apparently

‘Live can be hard, but Scooter is harder.’

Rave Witches treads the fine line between terrible and magnificent as well as a lot of their old stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AsPwoOeFcU

*life

new album is hilarious as usual

WHEN NOTHING GOES RIGHT!! GO LEFT!!

MOST STUFF! YOU HEAR IN A NIGHTCLUB! SOUNDS LIKE A COW! FALLING IN A BATHTUB!!